Joe Walsh is back on the road opening for Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Walsh plays tonight (April 2nd) with Seger at Denver's Pepsi Center and wraps up the run on April 18th at Buffalo's First Niagara Center. Along the way, Walsh has a single solo date on the books, playing Huntington, New York's The Paramount on Long Island.

Last year, Joe Walsh released Analog Man, his first solo album since becoming sober in 1994. Walsh told us that like many rockers, he deluded himself into believing that he needed to be wasted to produced his best music: "It's a great denial for an artist to say that we need to experience the entire spectrum of emotions, blah, blah, blah. Could (Jimi) Hendrix have played like that if he wasn't on acid? Probably not. Could (Ernest) Hemingway or (William) Faulkner have written all that literature if they weren't alcoholics? Probably not. Y'know, so I justified me with that kind of talkin' and reasoning -- (with it) not really occurring to me that they're all dead because of it."